But as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.
KWAME NKRUMAHIt is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world.
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The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.
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But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.
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It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
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